1980: I have a spiritual spring

Chapter 63 1981 years

evening.

The home of Captain Qiao Tiejun.

Hearing Qiao Dajiang's words, Qiao Tiejun felt relieved. The land distribution was decided by the members of the production team. If someone wanted to exchange land privately, it was a small matter as long as both parties agreed. He smiled and said, "Exchanging land is no problem. Which piece of land do you brothers plan to exchange with me?"

Qiao Erhe named four plots of land in a row before laughing and saying, "Captain, you can choose any of these four plots from my family. We'll exchange whichever one you like for your land."

As the production team leader, Qiao Tiejun was in charge of deciding how the village's land should be divided. He was very familiar with every piece of land in the village, and the four plots of land that Qiao Erhe mentioned were all much better than the plot of land his family owned at the entrance of the village.

This shows that the Qiao brothers were very sincere.

They were all related by blood, and the Qiao siblings had raised 6000 laying hens, which was a far cry from what it used to be. Qiao Tiejun would naturally not let go of such a favor that would benefit him as well.

So Qiao Tiejun readily chose one of the plots of land and said with a smile, "Then I congratulate you in advance. If you need help building houses next year, just come and tell me, and I'll help you gather manpower."

"Thank you Captain."

The Qiao brothers thanked them.

Qiao Erhe continued, "Captain, let's set the time for exchanging this land after next year's wheat harvest. Is that alright with you?"

Qiao Tiejun smiled and said, "Of course, that's no problem."

After the matter was settled, the Qiao brothers stayed to warm themselves by the fire and chatted for a while before getting up to say goodbye and heading home with their empty baskets.

Watching the Qiao brothers leave, Qiao Tiejun's eldest son, Qiao Yong, couldn't help but show an envious expression, and sighed, "The lives of the Da Jiang siblings are getting better and better."

Qiao Tiejun said, "Erhe is a bold and capable young man. He is the most capable person in the village. If Qiaojiawan wants to develop in the future, we may still have to rely on him!"

Qiao Yong said, "Isn't he afraid of getting into trouble by causing all this trouble?"

Qiao Tiejun said, "The winds have changed now. Besides, he's just raising livestock now, not doing any speculation. What could possibly happen to him?"

Qiao Yong thought it made sense and asked, "Dad, how many laying hens do we plan to raise next year when the weather gets warmer?"

Qiao Tiejun said, "Let's try raising 1000 first."

Qiao Yong said, "The Jiang siblings have already raised 6000 birds, while we're only raising 1000. Isn't that too conservative?"

Qiao Tiejun said earnestly, "When doing things, you must be down-to-earth and not blindly follow the trend. The Da Jiang siblings only raised 1000 laying hens at the beginning. They only started to expand their breeding scale after gaining experience."

"We have no experience in raising chickens. If we start with thousands of laying hens, we'd be happy if it succeeds, but if something goes wrong, we'd be bankrupt. The risk is just too great; we can't afford to gamble!"

Qiao Yong nodded repeatedly, "Dad, you're so thoughtful."

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After leaving the team leader's house, Qiao Dajiang and Qiao Erhe returned home, packed a basket of eggs and two packs of high-end cigarettes, and headed towards Uncle Wu's house.

Needless to say, when faced with the Qiao brothers' request to exchange land, Uncle Wu, like the team leader, readily agreed.

After all, Uncle Wu's family had already gained some advantages in exchanging the land, and the Qiao brothers had also given him gifts. Under these circumstances, it would be too unreasonable to refuse.

Next, the Qiao brothers followed the same method and went to Uncle Hua's house again. In the end, the Qiao brothers successfully acquired three plots of land connected to the land at the entrance of their village, totaling 3.2 mu (approximately 0.2 hectares), which was more than enough to use as their family's homestead.

The land exchange period is set for after next year's wheat harvest.

After settling the land issue, Qiao Erhe focused his attention on designing the new house.

Qiao Erhe's original plan for this new house was simply to build a slightly larger two-story building. In the early 1980s, in the countryside, families who could afford to build a two-story house were already considered to be very well-off.

Besides, this two-story house is just a temporary measure. We can build a luxury villa a few years later when we have enough money and all the building materials we need.

However, Qiao Erhe thought to himself, how many years does one have in a lifetime?

Having finally been reborn, he naturally couldn't be careless about his food, clothing, housing, and transportation. He either wouldn't build a house at all, or he would build a good one.

As for rebuilding a new house when I have money in the future, I can just rebuild it here in the old house. That way, I can occupy both sides of the homestead, so that when the regulations become stricter in the future, it won't be so easy to occupy homesteads like it is now.

Although he may not live in the village in the future, no matter where he lives, Qiaojiawan is the place where his ancestors lived for generations and where he lived for decades in his previous life. He has a special feeling for this land.

Since he wanted to build better houses, Qiao Erhe thought it over and decided to build townhouses.

The reason for this choice is that these townhouses are not only aesthetically pleasing, but also relatively easy to build, since they appeared and became popular in Europe and America as early as the 1840s and 1850s.

However, in those days, townhouses were not yet popular in my country, and most people in rural towns were unaware that such buildings existed. It would be impossible for craftsmen who only worked in the countryside to build townhouses.

Qiao Erhe was not in a hurry at all.

Since the craftsmen in the township couldn't do it, he went to Shashi to find architectural designers. For these professional architects, even if they had never seen what a townhouse looked like, as long as they listened to Qiao Erhe's detailed description, they estimated that with some effort, they could design the townhouse.

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Before we knew it, 1980, a year of great significance to our country, came to an end, and 1981 began.

On New Year's Day, seeing his eldest brother, second brother, third sister, and fourth brother skillfully packing eggs, Qiao Wuhu, who was on a rare day off, came over with a big smile and said, "Big brother, second brother, I also want to go to Shashi. Please take me with you!"

Qiao Liuduo and Qiao Qitan, who had been watching the commotion from the sidelines, lit up when they heard their fifth brother's words and chimed in:
"Big brother, second brother, I also want to go to Shashi."

"Big brother, second brother, take me with you!"

Qiao Erhe saw the longing in the eyes of the fifth, sixth, and seventh brothers, and said with a smile, "Alright, considering how hard you three have been studying lately, I'll take you three to Shachang today to broaden your horizons."

"Great!"

"Thank you, second brother."

"Finally, we can go to Shashi!"

The fifth, sixth, and seventh brothers were overjoyed to hear this. Although Cenhe was not far from Shashi, there were very few rural people who had actually been to Shashi in those days.

Especially among minors, very few have ever been to Shashi. Now that the fifth, sixth, and seventh children have the opportunity to go to Shashi, they can brag about it to their friends when they come back, so it's hard for them not to be happy.

(End of this chapter)